Angelos Merges is a Swiss-Greek visual artist. He was born in 1989 in Chios, Greece. He works between Athens, Greece and Zurich, Switzerland.
STUDIES
2020
Integrated Master ( in the direction of Painting), Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
2023
Master in Fine Arts (MFA), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
UPCOMING
2025
‘Why Look at Animals?’ ( group show), National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens
Castelgrande, Bellinzona, Ticino
SOLO EXHIBITIONS ( selected)
2025
‘Off Season’, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
2024
‘Pilgrims’, Modern Animals gallery, Zurich
‘The Radiance of Earthen Bonds’, Duo show with Aline Witschi, FOMO art space, Zurich
2020
‘Family of Man’, ASFA Degree Show, Athens
2018
‘World’s Material’, Melanithros gallery, Athens
GROUP & DUO EXHIBITIONS ( selected)
2024
Jungkunst 2024, Halle 710, Winterhur
Werkstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, Zurich
2023
‘ENCORE: New Greek Painting’, Municipal Gallery of Athens
‘Visarte: “Einsichten 2023 and Friends’, with FOMO art space & Hotel Tiger art space, Photobastei, Zurich
‘Sunburn’, Studio West, London
‘Emerging Voices’, gallery Thalatta, Athens
2022
‘ An exemplary Art Show’, Hotel Tiger offspace, Zurich
‘Xtra Rough’, Schlieren, Zurich
‘Mataroa Awards’, Art Thessaloniki Fair, Thessaloniki
‘Summer Projekt’, Go Green Art Gallery, Zurich
‘IN THE OTHER ROOM’, Sonnenstube offspace, Lugano
‘Soft Underbelly’, Zoumboulaki Gallery, Athens
2021
‘21!’, Αrchaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos, Crete
‘Reality Check’, StandInLine Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
‘Back to Athens – Day Wavers’, Isaia Megaron, Athens
‘On a Small Scale’, ALMA Gallery, Athens
2020
‘The space of emplacement’, Space52, online
2019
‘The shaped Body’, Stegi Gramaton kai Tehnon Aminteou, Florina
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Heinrich Hintermeister-Stiftung
2022 Zangger Weber Scholarship
2022 Hirschmann Stipendium Award
2019 TrainOSE, 150 years Greek Railway Award
RESIDENCIES
2022 Shared Campus Summer School –
«Rivers. Jugular Veins of Empire», London
2015 Philoxenia Workshop, Festivart, Loutraki
